Another City Hall Shakeup
Mayor Daley reacted today to the resignation of his planning commissioner. Rich Samuels will have the latest on Denise Casalino's exit from City Hall, as well as the mayor's concern about Avian Flu. Click here for transcript of Mayor Daley's comments.
News Analysis with Phil Ponce
How will the City Council vote on a proposed ordinance to ban smoking in Chicago? Tonight's panel will debate the contentious issue. Guests: Joel Africk, American Lung Association of Metropolitan Chicago; Alderman Pat O'Connor, Chicago's 40th Ward; Billy Lawless, owner of Irish Oak, chairman of the Irish Pubs Association of Chicago, and a member of the Illinois Restaurant Association and the Illinois Licensed Beverage Association; and Ald. George Cardenas, Chicago's 12th Ward.
Washburne Culinary Institute
One of the oldest culinary schools in the country has a brand new state-of-the-art kitchen in a new location. Eddie Arruza tells us about the Washburne Culinary Institute's move to the South Shore Cultural Center and the upscale Parrot Cage restaurant there where students will get real life experience.
"A Doula Story"
We'll talk to Chicago filmmaker Daniel Alpert. His new documentary "A Doula Story" follows the life of a birth attendant - or doula - who helps disadvantaged teenage moms on the city's west side.
Chicago on Stage
Sun-Times theater critic Hedy Weiss shares remembrances of August Wilson, who died this week, and a review of his play Two Trains Running now on stage at Pegasus Players. Also reviewed: Echoes of Another Man and The Uneasy Chair
One More Thing...
...about getting young people to read the papers.
Mayor Daley's comments on Avian Flu:
Mayor Daley: There's no— there's no remedy for it. That's the problem. You know that. There's no shot or vaccine for it. It's a very, very dangerous disease. Asian flu. I mean, basically, from the bird flu. I mean, it's—- and you look at what's happening in Southeast Asia and Vietnam and other parts, in China. We should not ever have it here. The health of people are too more important, especially another generation. And the government better do something immediately about it. Don't wait til after a hurricane happens, or an epidemic happens. Let's get ready right now.
Reporter: So you don't have a problem with the military getting involved in a quarantine, maybe?
Mayor Daley: I didn't say that! Now you want me to quarantine people! "Mayor Daley stands up, he's going to quarantine people! Thanks a lot, mayor!"
Reporter: That's what Bush said.
Mayor Daley: We ought to go to the Sox game. I want to do this. But what—-like anything else, when you have a medical decision made on behalf of people on the block, and they have to make it, they have to do certain things in order to protect the family or extended family or people on the block or people in an apartment building. So I don't know what they're going to do. If there's new remedies there, they have to look at prior to going to any situation. I said, "that's what you have to see". Thank you very much.
